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3CHESTER DAY BY DAY
JL, Yao^-U \€> >3
By Cray L Remington
.never became of the old-
med guy Who regretted the
lS of good old-fashioned win-
Trying to collect sufficient
] <-o pay this winter's fuel
frost, the city water de-
ent reports, has penetrated
depth of four and five feet,
even deeper, and when the
was overwhelmed with be-
^ero temperature bursting
pipes underground reminded
medley of toy gas bags go-
>p! pop! Workmen couldn't
'ate to the buried pipes with
>s and picks. They used
.'essors. It was, old timers
aim, the coldest spell since
which, presumbably, furnish-
i old-fashioned winter.
' speaking of shovels, hand
e, the city bought 8,000 of
for Rochester's CWA work-
uid one of the big jobs for
G. Schreiner, new city pur-
g agent, will be to keep
ii them, if possible. Veteran
iired hands predict it can't
■ ne and that shovels will be
red all over town like the
.' seeds carried on the
:s. If you happen to find a
» stray shovels on your
you can hazard to whom
>e1ong. If shovels were dol-
ae city would be debt free,
laying new underground
the city packed them with
traw from horse stables and,
for a time, the supply became so
limited none could be had notwithstanding telephone beseech-
monts by purchasing department
clerks.
The answer, of course, was that
old-fashioned equine stables have
vanished but old-fashioned winters have not.
I am among the younger boys
who will await impatiently for the
appearance of Metro - Goldwyn .
Mayer's new picture, "Treasure
Island," with Wallace Beery as
Honest John Silver, a detestable
villa:
Of all the thousands of treasure
trove tales Robert Louis Stevenson's is the best, I think, and although it fairly reeks with the
atmosphere of blood, general be-
devilment and cussing not a
single cuss word can be found in
it. And it's English is impeccable,
a. shining example for all students
to observe.
How, one ponders, could the
gentle soul of Stevenson have
woven the imperishable yarn of
"Treasure Island"? As long aa
young and old boys survive it
shall always live in its ever
pristine freshno.ss. Mr. Beery do
your best.
Rochesteriana: Ray Schultz
asks it the dismal trapped winter
can be blamed on the Republican
party? . . . Two daffodils are pftep-
ing through the ground in the rear
of the C. G. Fish Printing Company, No. 15 James Street, and
they seem well named, daffy . . .
Silly crows are also flying over
town, bound North, and farmers
used to say crows were smart . . .
Miss Rita Fitzgerald, No. 357
Alexander Street, has a nice kitten she would be glad to present
to a kind owner . . . Emery Mudge
prizes a collection of autograpMQ
photographs of stage performers,
so modern as to include Lyceum
stock company cast . . . During
cold spell Rochester Gas and Electric Company sold lots of gas because householders were using
kitchen ranges to keep warm . . .
Greatest attraction in West Avenue is Taylor Instrument Company's giant thermometer now illuminated . . . Thanks to Jonas
Clifton, No. 15 Warrington Drive
. . . Believing Hosea Komis, America needs a Scotland Yard to provide crime fiction writers with a
background equal to that enjoyed
hy British writers. To avoid confusion it could he termed Ireland
Yard . . .High Genesee failed to
budge new Rundel Memorial
Library building foundations ■ e .
Everybody calls it Ward Building,
in Clinton Avenue South, but it
should be Present Building . . .
When Louis Kroll's pet canine,
Tippy, disappeared from its Monroe Avenue gas station home all
the children thereabouts mourned
for days . . . Since advent of beer
one popular soft drink, with sales
curtailed, is dispensing free portions in local beauty shops . . .
Allen Stacy is out again, and Abe
Raffelson has selected himself a
new spring hat off the shelf . . .
One Rochester lawyer promise.;
to find moving debtors for $1.50,
and they term him Sherlock
Holmes.
Buffalo's face is also red. It
fairly scorches as it worries along
with a few comparatively unimportant broadcast Btations the
while it remembers, constantly,
that little Rochester, to the East,
boasts one of the country's
strongest. WHAM, with all of 50.-
000 watts. The foregoing, of
ccurse, causes involuntary tears
from Rochester. And, by the way,
what It a watt?
Glenn Mack and Ethel Hinton
come down from Buffalo once a
week to do "Tim and Delia" for
WHAM, but they secret no animosity, none at all. "They're great,"
says Frank W. Kelly, "and there's
nothing like them in Rochester,
hut if Buffalo has a good act it's
always glad to come here because
of the higher power and chance
for national recognition."
Charles Siverson, they tell me,
made good at WHAM after spending a lifetime in Buffalo and
Lowell MacMillan. University of
Rochester man. first tried radio
in Buffalo after which WHAM
brought him home to do sport-
casts, and he's been here ever
since. Some experts consider him
the cream of local air spielers.
There fs tragedy, laughs, too,
in the directory of Rochester
vocals who are not permitted on
the air because, of al! things,
their programs are not snow
white immaculate. They never
quite realize what the trouble Is
and learn new repertoires of
identical latitudes. Perhaps they
slip
Still, Phil Harris manages to
• a bit of tobasco in his
ver and anon, and perhaps
so much what one sings
-">e sings it.
natter what happen
the static
iever to
the sponsor who. like
..... lady in the melodrama, pays
and pays and pays.
YOUR ANNOUNCER IS-
THOMAS F. SMITH
Hails from Scotland,
educated in England, announces in Hollywood,
KNX. Comes of a musical family and was himself a piper in the London
Scottish. Has traveled a
lot, been a purser on a
steamer, tried the London
stock exchange and the
shipping business. But
radio finally got him,
when he dropped into a
broadcasting station in
Portland, Oregon.
PHIL BRONSON
Phil was a newspaper
sports correspondent for
years. Minneapolis, St.
Paul, New Orleans and
New York are just a few
of the towns that knew
him. And so when KSTP,
Minneapolis, went on the
air in 1928 and needed a
baseball announcer, 'Phil
got the job. Now, he devotes all his time to broadcasting everv kind of sports
event for KSTP. Says
his first love was football.
DUTCH REAGAN
Another sports announcer. On WOC-WHO,
Des Moines, la. From the
time he was in knee pants
he has played football,
basketball and baseball.
Was a letter man in college. 'In the summers life-
guarding was his hobby.
Made seventy-seven rescues in seven seasons.
Wanted to be an actor but
ended up an announcer.
But he still acts even
now behind the mike.
lowell macmillan
Goes to baseball and
football games and never
cheers! Got to save that
bass baritone for the air.
Besides announcing the
Kendall Sportcast,
WHAM, Rochester, N.Y.,
MacMillan handles some
of WHAM'S choicest announcing assignments. To
him went the honor of
broadcasting the first intercollegiate box lacrosse
game. Participants were
Cornell and Syracuse.
■'11

3CHESTER DAY BY DAY
JL, Yao^-U \€> >3
By Cray L Remington
.never became of the old-
med guy Who regretted the
lS of good old-fashioned win-
Trying to collect sufficient
] p! pop! Workmen couldn't
'ate to the buried pipes with
>s and picks. They used
.'essors. It was, old timers
aim, the coldest spell since
which, presumbably, furnish-
i old-fashioned winter.
' speaking of shovels, hand
e, the city bought 8,000 of
for Rochester's CWA work-
uid one of the big jobs for
G. Schreiner, new city pur-
g agent, will be to keep
ii them, if possible. Veteran
iired hands predict it can't
■ ne and that shovels will be
red all over town like the
.' seeds carried on the
:s. If you happen to find a
» stray shovels on your
you can hazard to whom
>e1ong. If shovels were dol-
ae city would be debt free,
laying new underground
the city packed them with
traw from horse stables and,
for a time, the supply became so
limited none could be had notwithstanding telephone beseech-
monts by purchasing department
clerks.
The answer, of course, was that
old-fashioned equine stables have
vanished but old-fashioned winters have not.
I am among the younger boys
who will await impatiently for the
appearance of Metro - Goldwyn .
Mayer's new picture, "Treasure
Island," with Wallace Beery as
Honest John Silver, a detestable
villa:
Of all the thousands of treasure
trove tales Robert Louis Stevenson's is the best, I think, and although it fairly reeks with the
atmosphere of blood, general be-
devilment and cussing not a
single cuss word can be found in
it. And it's English is impeccable,
a. shining example for all students
to observe.
How, one ponders, could the
gentle soul of Stevenson have
woven the imperishable yarn of
"Treasure Island"? As long aa
young and old boys survive it
shall always live in its ever
pristine freshno.ss. Mr. Beery do
your best.
Rochesteriana: Ray Schultz
asks it the dismal trapped winter
can be blamed on the Republican
party? . . . Two daffodils are pftep-
ing through the ground in the rear
of the C. G. Fish Printing Company, No. 15 James Street, and
they seem well named, daffy . . .
Silly crows are also flying over
town, bound North, and farmers
used to say crows were smart . . .
Miss Rita Fitzgerald, No. 357
Alexander Street, has a nice kitten she would be glad to present
to a kind owner . . . Emery Mudge
prizes a collection of autograpMQ
photographs of stage performers,
so modern as to include Lyceum
stock company cast . . . During
cold spell Rochester Gas and Electric Company sold lots of gas because householders were using
kitchen ranges to keep warm . . .
Greatest attraction in West Avenue is Taylor Instrument Company's giant thermometer now illuminated . . . Thanks to Jonas
Clifton, No. 15 Warrington Drive
. . . Believing Hosea Komis, America needs a Scotland Yard to provide crime fiction writers with a
background equal to that enjoyed
hy British writers. To avoid confusion it could he termed Ireland
Yard . . .High Genesee failed to
budge new Rundel Memorial
Library building foundations ■ e .
Everybody calls it Ward Building,
in Clinton Avenue South, but it
should be Present Building . . .
When Louis Kroll's pet canine,
Tippy, disappeared from its Monroe Avenue gas station home all
the children thereabouts mourned
for days . . . Since advent of beer
one popular soft drink, with sales
curtailed, is dispensing free portions in local beauty shops . . .
Allen Stacy is out again, and Abe
Raffelson has selected himself a
new spring hat off the shelf . . .
One Rochester lawyer promise.;
to find moving debtors for $1.50,
and they term him Sherlock
Holmes.
Buffalo's face is also red. It
fairly scorches as it worries along
with a few comparatively unimportant broadcast Btations the
while it remembers, constantly,
that little Rochester, to the East,
boasts one of the country's
strongest. WHAM, with all of 50.-
000 watts. The foregoing, of
ccurse, causes involuntary tears
from Rochester. And, by the way,
what It a watt?
Glenn Mack and Ethel Hinton
come down from Buffalo once a
week to do "Tim and Delia" for
WHAM, but they secret no animosity, none at all. "They're great,"
says Frank W. Kelly, "and there's
nothing like them in Rochester,
hut if Buffalo has a good act it's
always glad to come here because
of the higher power and chance
for national recognition."
Charles Siverson, they tell me,
made good at WHAM after spending a lifetime in Buffalo and
Lowell MacMillan. University of
Rochester man. first tried radio
in Buffalo after which WHAM
brought him home to do sport-
casts, and he's been here ever
since. Some experts consider him
the cream of local air spielers.
There fs tragedy, laughs, too,
in the directory of Rochester
vocals who are not permitted on
the air because, of al! things,
their programs are not snow
white immaculate. They never
quite realize what the trouble Is
and learn new repertoires of
identical latitudes. Perhaps they
slip
Still, Phil Harris manages to
• a bit of tobasco in his
ver and anon, and perhaps
so much what one sings
-">e sings it.
natter what happen
the static
iever to
the sponsor who. like
..... lady in the melodrama, pays
and pays and pays.
YOUR ANNOUNCER IS-
THOMAS F. SMITH
Hails from Scotland,
educated in England, announces in Hollywood,
KNX. Comes of a musical family and was himself a piper in the London
Scottish. Has traveled a
lot, been a purser on a
steamer, tried the London
stock exchange and the
shipping business. But
radio finally got him,
when he dropped into a
broadcasting station in
Portland, Oregon.
PHIL BRONSON
Phil was a newspaper
sports correspondent for
years. Minneapolis, St.
Paul, New Orleans and
New York are just a few
of the towns that knew
him. And so when KSTP,
Minneapolis, went on the
air in 1928 and needed a
baseball announcer, 'Phil
got the job. Now, he devotes all his time to broadcasting everv kind of sports
event for KSTP. Says
his first love was football.
DUTCH REAGAN
Another sports announcer. On WOC-WHO,
Des Moines, la. From the
time he was in knee pants
he has played football,
basketball and baseball.
Was a letter man in college. 'In the summers life-
guarding was his hobby.
Made seventy-seven rescues in seven seasons.
Wanted to be an actor but
ended up an announcer.
But he still acts even
now behind the mike.
lowell macmillan
Goes to baseball and
football games and never
cheers! Got to save that
bass baritone for the air.
Besides announcing the
Kendall Sportcast,
WHAM, Rochester, N.Y.,
MacMillan handles some
of WHAM'S choicest announcing assignments. To
him went the honor of
broadcasting the first intercollegiate box lacrosse
game. Participants were
Cornell and Syracuse.
■'11